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Joe Fusion

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I am on fire.

See JoeFusion.com for even less info.
Also: jokes, stories, drawings.

My Interests

science, words, music, pictures (still and moving), humor, comics, hi-jinks, illustration, drawing, writing, making out, cute girls, making out with cute girls, playing pranks, dancing, telling stories, collaborative art, monkeys, puppets, robots, systems science, artificial intelligence, theoretical biology, math, physics, linguistics, teaching, learning, space travel, time travel, exercise, hiking, camping, poekoelan, cheese (see below), freaking out the squares, copying interests from one site to another

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Le Tigre, They Might Be Giants, Bis, Tipsy, Solex, Sleater-Kinney, Komeda, Cornelius, Ani DiFranco, Aimee Mann, Bikini Kill, The Breeders, Fiona Apple, Bright Eyes, Cibo Matto, Devo, Dressy Bessy, Dr. Octagon, Frank Black, Glenn Miller, Del Shannon, Liz Phair, Thievery Corporation, EPMD, Man or Astro-man?, Matmos, The Decemberists, Pizzicato Five, Dance Hall Crashers, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Elastica, Tracy Chapman, Slick Rick, The Cardigans, Servotron, PJ Harvey, Cex, Billie Holiday, Amon Tobin, The Temptations, Simon and Garfunkel, Natalie Merchant, Beastie Boys, April March, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ursula 1000, Blackalicious, Buddy Holly, Emmylou Harris, Mates of State, Portishead, Tenacious D, Public Enemy, Rainer Maria, Billy Idol, NOFX, Run-D.M.C., Fatboy Slim, The Supremes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Croce, Kid Koala, Kool Moe Dee, Shonen Knife, Boogie Down Productions, Ladytron, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Bonkers collections, Mad Caddies, Sarah McLachlan, Talking Heads, Van Morrison, Jungle Brothers

Movies:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Rushmore, Serenity, Cabin Boy, Wet Hot American Summer, Pootie Tang, Time Bandits, Spirited Away, Buckaroo Banzai, Baron Munchausen, Shaolin Soccer, God of Cookery, Barton Fink, Pitch Black, Best in Show, Shakes the Clown, Coldblooded

Television:

Firefly, Mr. Show, Buffy, Futurama, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, MST3k, Kids In The Hall, Get A Life, Invader Zim, Powerpuff Girls, Sealab 2021, Six Feet Under, I don't have a TV

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, Godel Escher Bach, How The Mind Works, The Phantom Tollbooth, The BFG, Franny and Zooey, Alice in Wonderland, The Education of Little Tree, Squee, Acme Novelty, V for Vendetta, Preacher, Milk and Cheese, Dangerous Angels
Cheeses Pepperjack, Brie, Stilton, Feta, Cheddar, Colby, Mozzarella, Swiss, Provolone, All others

Heroes:

The wind beneath my wings, footprints in the sand, a candle in the wind, the greatest love of all, the man who will fight for your honor, electric youth

My Blog

Update

Here is what I've been doing lately:Last week I took my comprehensive exams: sixteen hours of tests, covering sixty-four credits of class from the last few years. That was followed on Tuesday by the m...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:41:00 PST

caw blimey, etc.

I'm leaving in a bit for my flight to England! Many woos. I'll have no phone till I get back in January, though I'll have access to the tubes at times.Later.
Posted by Joe Fusion on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:08:00 PST

No sunshine

So there was this wonderful girl. We've been dating on and off since the spring, and finally decided to be "serious" in the last month or so. This step was taken knowing that she would be leaving the ...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:16:00 PST

Burning Man 2006 photos

My photos, on Flickr.Many, many other photos on Flickr.One Wired photoset and another.You can find more with this site "google" I think?Comments forthcoming....
Posted by Joe Fusion on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:37:00 PST

tastes like burning

I saw Rainer Maria last night, who rocked. They opened for The Format, who rocked substantially less. It's lame that such an experienced and talented band has to open for such a stupid, young band.I'm...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:24:00 PST

...

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
Posted by Joe Fusion on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:38:00 PST

hypothetical syllogism

I am up late, catching up on school work that was neglected this weekend. I neglected it in favor of friends and poekoelan. Current priority scheme: friends > poekoelan > school > sleep. (Apparently "...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:53:00 PST

items 1 & 2

1. My score on the exam was... an A or A-. Good enough for me.One of the main questions on the exam (and in the class) is: What is your working definition of communication? It's an interesting questio...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:40:00 PST

what I should be doing instead of this

My current task list:1. Study for tomorrow's exam in Animal Communications. (Yes, the class started a week ago.)2. Create visualizations in Matlab of the Cusp and Butterfly Catastrophes for my advisor...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:48:00 PST

one line

I'm having some trouble with purpose and desire and such lately.Can't figure out what I want, for the most part.Can't figure out how to get what I do want.I did figure out how to get a haircut though!...
Posted by Joe Fusion on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:57:00 PST